The "Secret" Hidden Celebrity Cemetery

0:02 Welcome everyone. I'm in the greater Los

0:02 Angeles area today in Westwood. And

0:04 right here amongst all of these

0:06 buildings is a very minute, secretive

0:10 cemetery that a lot of people do not

0:12 realize exists. It's right back down

0:15 that alley. You could call it the

0:17 cemetery of the stars. Heck, even the

0:21 hidden cemetery of the stars. You want

0:24 to check it out? Join me. Shall you?

0:30 We don't even ask

0:32 you.

0:55 One of the things I love about this

0:55 place is it's virtually unknown unless

0:57 you know it is here. You would never

1:00 realize as you're driving through the

1:02 greater Los Angeles area that amongst

1:04 the skyscrapers and buildings that this

1:06 wonderful place exists. And even more

1:09 amazing than that are some of the

1:12 celebrities, the countless amount of

1:14 celebrities and the backstories behind

1:18 their deaths and their graves that exist

1:21 right here. One of my favorites, of

1:23 course, Don Knots. The story on this Don

1:26 Knots headstone was he had a normal

1:29 headstone similar to the other ones you

1:32 see around him, but later on as time

1:35 went on, they replaced it with this

1:38 really fantastic one with all the

1:40 different characters that Don Knots

1:42 played throughout his career. This is

1:44 Heather Oor's grave. She was the little

1:47 girl in Poltergeist 1 and two and she

1:50 died at a very young age. She was born

1:53 in 1975 and passed away in 1988.

1:58 Here is the final resting place of

2:00 Truman Capot. And you might find it

2:03 unusual that the name Joanne Carson is

2:07 below his emblem. And the reason Joanne

2:10 Carson is buried here is because she was

2:13 best friends with Truman Capot. Even

2:16 though she was married to Johnny Carson,

2:19 she is buried next to her friend. Here's

2:23 Richard Dawson, of course, famous for

2:25 Family Feud, but I know him from The

2:28 Running Man.

2:29 He was also in Hogan's Heroes. Hogan.

2:32 Bob Crane's right over there.

2:34 Over this way.

2:35 Over this way. Let's see if we can find

2:36 Bob. So, this is Bob Crane and his wife

2:39 who played Elga on the uh on the show

2:42 Hogan's Heroes.

2:44 Bob uh unfortunately uh was murdered and

2:49 uh they I don't know if they ever solved

2:51 the crime.

2:51 In case you're wondering who that voice

2:52 is, that is the voice of the one and

2:54 only Mr. X, who was just off camera. Say

2:57 something.

2:58 Hello.

2:59 And he knows a lot about Hollywood,

3:01 Beverly Hills, the whole greater Los

3:02 Angeles history, and a lot of like movie

3:04 star and TV stuff. So, he's tagging

3:06 along. He doesn't want to be on camera.

3:09 Never on camera.

3:10 Never on camera. But you're going to

3:12 hear his voice, and he will be peppering

3:14 in some knowledge and some facts and

3:15 figures about this fantastic place as

3:18 the video progresses.

3:19 So, there's Bert Lancaster.

3:21 Sorry, trying to clean off Mr.

3:23 Lancaster.

3:23 And I'm guessing by how many headstones

3:26 there are that he was cremated and his

3:29 ashes and probably his urn is there in

3:31 the ground. Now, I know Bert Lancaster

3:34 was famous back in the day, but I

3:36 remember Bert Lancaster from a baseball

3:39 movie called Field of Dreams, and he

3:41 gave this great quote about how if he

3:44 had one wish, he would slide into

3:46 second, wrap his hands around the bag,

3:48 and that was his one wish. And it always

3:51 hits me right here.

3:58 Someone has left roses for Dean Martin.

3:58 Just think after all this time he passed

4:01 away in 1995, people are still coming

4:04 out and paying their respects to Dean

4:06 Martin.

4:23 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't

4:23 fair faucet pass away the same day as

4:25 Michael Jackson?

4:27 Believe so. You're right. Yeah, that's

4:28 right. Right.

4:29 And so I think that, you know, her

4:32 passing away, the fame of a famous

4:35 person passing away was overshadowed by

4:38 Michael's death.

4:39 Ask you though, did you have her poster

4:41 in your room when you were a kid?

4:43 I never had her poster. I wasn't allowed

4:45 to have her poster.

4:45 Oh, I had her poster.

4:47 I may or may not have it hanging now

4:49 next to my bed. It's a very beautiful

4:51 grave. Nice flowers, nice headstone.

4:54 It's finally good to see that Rodney is

4:57 getting some respect.

5:00 And this is the inside of the chapel.

5:03 So, pretty much everyone who is buried

5:06 or has had a service here, at least a

5:08 good portion of them,

5:10 their coffin

5:12 has been right there.

5:15 And all those mourning the friends and

5:17 family sitting right here.

5:43 right here in this section, you'll

5:43 notice there are a lot of gravestones

5:45 that have nothing written on them. The

5:48 only one that does is over here to the

5:50 right, Sage Stallone, who is Sylvester

5:54 Stallone's son. And you might remember

5:56 him best from Rocky 5. He played the

6:00 actual son of Stallone in the movie. He

6:04 passed away in 2012. And I do not know

6:07 for certain, but I'm wondering if this

6:09 entire plot is dedicated to the entire

6:12 Stallone family since Sage is the only

6:16 one that has passed away.

6:27 You will notice this plant, but no

6:27 headstone. Where this plant is is the

6:29 unmarked grave of Roy Orbison right

6:33 here. They never put a headstone. No one

6:36 even knows he's here. The only thing to

6:39 document it is this plant.

6:50 There's yet another unmarked grave out

6:50 here. Right here between these two

6:52 headstones is the unmarked grave of

6:55 Frank Zapper. right here.

7:03 This is Natalie Wood's grave. Of course,

7:03 Natalie Wood died a from a drowning

7:05 accident, a very controversial drowning

7:08 accident. And she was in a lot of

7:11 movies, but the most famous being Rebel

7:13 Without a Cause with James Dean.

7:16 And there's her headstone.

7:20 Betty Paige, the queen of the pin-ups.

7:25 Probably the most famous pinup artist of

7:28 all time, Miss Betty Paige right there.

7:38 Dorothy Stratton, Playboy playmate who

7:38 was murdered in 1980. And the house that

7:42 she was murdered in was later used as a

7:46 film about her life. And they filmed it

7:50 in the home that she was murdered in.

7:54 It's a true story.

8:13 course, the most famous grave out here

8:13 is Marilyn Monroe's grave. And there was

8:17 an employee just cleaning off all the

8:19 lipstick marks that women and men come

8:22 out here and kiss Marilyn's crypt. And

8:25 you can see it's been cleaned so many

8:27 times that it is stained with lipstick

8:30 as it's been smeared. Cuz look at the

8:33 difference between this and this. And

8:34 there's a lot of urban legends and some

8:36 factual, some untrue things about the

8:38 Maryland grave. Richard Poncher

8:40 supposedly was buried upside down, face

8:44 down. That way he could be on top of

8:47 Maryland forever. And another rumor is

8:50 that this will belong to the one and

8:52 only Hugh Hefner. Now, I don't know if

8:54 these are factual or untrue,

8:57 but these are the stories.

9:29 Thanks for watching everyone. I didn't

9:29 show all the graves here, but I showed

9:31 some of the more famous and unusual

9:33 storied ones. And if you're ever in the

9:35 Hollywood area, keep an eye out for this

9:38 very amazing cemetery and stop by. See

9:42 you guys.

The "Secret" Hidden Celebrity Cemetery

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